What We're Reading
Burying "Post-Racial"
Dr. Dan's Freedom Forum | Bastiat Institute
Obama signs bill to overhaul Wall Street
CA Technologies' Marianne Budnik
Cautious Optimism In the Gulf
The Next Arizona
Fact Sheet : Fiscal Facts: The G20 Summit
On June 27, the United States endorsed a joint policy declaration with the other nations participating in the G20 summit in Toronto. Under the section entitled “The Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth,” the G20 agreed to pursue “fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016.” This fact sheet puts these commitments in the context of Pew’s projections of the U.S. fiscal outlook.
(author unknown)The Ethics and Etiquette of Statistical Discrimination
Of course, the inevitable existence of some statistical discrimination doesn't make the practice immune to criticism. You can grant that it's OK to some degree, but - even if the law is silent - still limited by ethics and/or etiquette. But precisely what limitations do you think are justified, and why?
P.S. If your behavior is inconsistent with your principles, please consider the possibility that your principles are unreasonable. :-)
Focus on the Fed and Inflation
Focus on Inflation
Focus on Energy and the Environment
‘The Time to Worry about Big Business Is When It Gets in Cahoots with Big Government’
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was at AEI earlier this week, speaking about healthcare reform. He was kind enough to sit down for a few minutes to talk about spending, cap-and-trade, and other topics.
In a Wall Street Journal article, Daniels had characterized the extraordinary government interventions in the economy during the past 18 months as a kind of “crony capitalism.” I asked him to describe in further detail what he meant.
